Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 11:16:59 -0800 From: Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirkx@webweaving.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, dirk.vangulik@jrc.it Subject: Re: Flash card support Message-ID: <347F18AA.90271FE5@webweaving.org> References: <199811280007.RAA14667@harmony.village.org>
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Warner Losh wrote: > What's the current level of flash card support in FreeBSD? A quick grep > of the kernel shows nothing interesting.... If with flash-card you mean 'CompactFlash' card, then with PAO, it works like a dream. With the unpatched 3.0 kernel it works too; but you have to be little more careful when taking out the card; i.e. anything mounted and it hangs hard. Likewise for a pccardc power down. But with PAO, no problems at all. Though my exprience is limitited to just 6 cards from Sandisk, Kodak, Hitatchi and an IBM card (5, 5, 10, 35Mb and 128Mb) they are so similar that I really would be surprized if it could not be generalized. Judging from the list of entries in PAO's /etc/pccardc.conf this is a general thing. (Or it is because everyone OEMs of sandisk it seems :-) They appear as a WDC1770 controller; i.e just compile in a wdc2. On a desktop machine you obviously need to compile cdr0 etc in as well. I use them with my kodak camera, my Psion 5 and with a plastic adaptor thing on a Vaio laptop and, with a ISA/PCMCIA adaptor from kento on two desktop machines. To ensure compatibility with the kodak camera and the psion I use a normal dos file system on them. It mounts right away. The only catch is that the camera gets unhappy if you fiddle with upper and lower case file names; and when there is a space in the name. But apparently the latest firmware upgrade from kodak fixes this. But I've not tried this. So I modified the msdos fs to always write un uppercase and be a little less strickt when matching in unix. Dw. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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